Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.
Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
A man posing for a painting.
Avarice, the spur of industry.
Time is a perishable commodity.
Self-denial is a monkish virtue.
Truth is disputable, not human taste.
Interest is the barometer of the state.
Custom is the great guide to human life.
Anything that is conceivable is possible.
Superstition is an enemy to civil liberty.
All knowledge degenerates into probability.
The law always limits every power it gives.
Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
And what is the greatest number? Number one.
Everything in the world is purchased by labor.
Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once.
Men often act knowingly against their interest.
No advantages in this world are pure and unmixed.
A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.
The most pernicious of all taxes are the arbitrary.
It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause.
While we are reasoning concerning life, life is gone.
I do not have enough faith to believe there is no god.
No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.
It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.
Great pleasures are much less frequent than great pains.
The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.
Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.
It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.
The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.
The unhappy of all men is he who believes himself to be so.
History is the discovering of the principles of human nature.
Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals.
Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man.
Art may make a suite of clothes, but nature must produce a man.
All power, even the most despotic, rests ultimately on opinion.
When I hear that a man is religious, I conclude he is a rascal!
In all ages of the world, priests have been enemies of liberty.
The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness
The most lively thought is still inferior to the dullest sensation.
When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken.
The bigotry of theologians is a malady which seems almost incurable.
Anticipation of pleasure is, in itself, a very considerable pleasure.
Rousseau was mad but influential; Hume was sane but had no followers.
The heart of man is made to reconcile the most glaring contradictions.
It is a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
Virtue, like wholesome food, is better than poisons, however corrected.
Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived.
It is... a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
